Ruth Kelly sending her son to a private school

[cdd]

According to the Times the kid has Dyslexia... big f-ing deal. I have severe dyspraxia and to an extent dyslexia. As such I am allowed to take all class notes and exams on my lap top (albeit without spell checking for exams). Admittedly this is not a luxury everyone can afford, but it's ultimately a one-time cost, and, as far as I can see, that alleviates the problem entirely. Somehow, I find it much much easier to spell words correctly when typing than when handwriting, perhaps because it's a more rigorously defined structure of data input and therefore it's easier to get into patterns. Non-corrective spell check is an extremely useful tool as it, word by word, ingrains spellings in your mind.

I just can't stand these dyslexics who spend their life grumbling about their problems and defending low grades with these illnesses. If you have a learning difficulty, the school is obliged to make provisions for it, whether public or private. Sure, it gives you a worse off start, but neither of those illnesses hinders you in other subjects. And it's perfectly possible to excel in language subjects despite them - Dyslexia only affects reading and writing, not your vocabulary, creativeness, or essay-writing skills, problems solved with the generous 25% extra time allocation dyslexics get.

[Rob Del Monte]

well, come on, if you had the money, would you choose to state school your child ?!

Don't be a snob, Rob. I had a fine education at a non-private school (although I appear to have missed the lessons which taught the extraneous use of punctuation symbols).

The point about Ruth Kelly is she was a one-time Education Secretary, and her short tenure was fraught with problems.

It clearly shows that she has no confidence in the system previously under her own governance. What must parents who don't have the money for fee-paying schools make of that?

She deserves every ounce of criticism we have to give.

How am I being snobby?! I made a light hearted remark about an MP who doesn't even utilise a service that she operates (forgetting about the reshuffle). Saying that one couldn't blame her, sarcastically, and that if you were in her position (of money), would you use the state system (implying that she is running it badly). I don't think that making a jovial political remark is snobbery.

[Sput]

(That) is very [interesting]. Could you use some more parentheses?

I also heard she has 3 kids, and only this one goes to private school. So don't be sad, gav, two out of three ain't bad.

Although she does go in for the religious conservatism...

[Rob Del Monte]

I don't know the full facts, but it could be interrpeted as an admission that the state sy stem isn't good at supporting people with learning difficulties.

[Gavin Scott]

How am I being snobby?! I made a light hearted remark about an MP who doesn't even utilise a service that she operates (forgetting about the reshuffle). Saying that one couldn't blame her (sarcastically), if you were in her position (of money), would you use the state system (implying that she is running it badly). I don't think that making a jovial political remark is snobbery.

Alright then don't be so glib.

I don't know the full facts, but it could be interrpeted as an admission that the state sy stem isn't good at supporting people with learning difficulties.

Exactly.

[Rob Del Monte]

You're right, I do not understand the issues fully, my remark was jovial. I suffixed it with a teasing emoticon. I was just laughing at the image of the operator of a service not even 'falling so low' as to use it their self. Indeed, I did semi-admit that I was being glib, by saying:

I don't know the full facts, ….

in the previous post.

I was thinking mainly of the children who cannot get a good education, at least without paying a private school, because of where they live, with all of the schools being bad. Also the power that parliament have, and the pay the teachers get, to do the real hard work. My post was also very simplified, pretending that there was black and white difference between state and private systems.

[lukey]

Each of your posts makes me feel like I've just been introduced to Death, and then each post ends with the bitter disappointment that this kind of written tragedy is actually happening, and I'm still bitterly alive to witness it.

[all new Phil]

Each of your posts makes me feel like I've just been introduced to Death, and then each post ends with the bitter disappointment that this kind of written tragedy is actually happening, and I'm still bitterly alive to witness it.

Quiet, fool, that bandwagon left weeks ago.